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Rapper Future & super producer Metro Boomin cover GQ’s “Hitmakers Of The Year” Issue and deny igniting rap beef between their peers.
GQ is ending 2024 with the magazine’s highly anticipated “Men of the Year” lists, and Future and Metro Boomin have been crowned “Hitmakers of the Year” after back-to-back chart-topping albums.
A collaboration project between the two Atlanta natives was long overdue and over-delivered, yet it was still overshadowed by hip-hop beef.
Following We Don’t Trust You, and We Still Don’t Trust You from the duo, that headline-making feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar took place. While the beef started on “Like That” from the first collaborative album, Future and Metro’s takes on the situation might surprise you.
The duo covered GQ to discuss their joint albums, the fallout from both albums and their stance on what transpired after.
According to Metro, the albums were not created to target Drake.
“People really think we sat for two years, making two albums [to be] like, Yo, f**k this dude. What kind of sh*t is that?” asked Metro. “You really think we are going to spend that much time, effort, resources on just trying to get at somebody on an album? Blowing budgets on two albums-going over budget? That’s some serious hate. Neither one of us rock like that.”
Some Drake fans might view his words as backtracking on Metro’s part after creating the “BBL Drizzy” beat and sharing memes during the beef, but nevertheless, he had more to say.
Metro eventually addressed the elephant in the room and shared the backstory of his issues with Drizzy, kinda.
“Me and [Drake], we had a personal issue, and for the record, not over no girl or nothing silly like that,” Metro told GQ senior editor Frazier Tharpe, according to a screenshot shared by Elliott Wilson. “It was a personal issue that really hurt me and disappointed me. But if you take all the rap entertainment out of it, it’s like, have you ever been real cool with somebody, and y’all fell out over something?,” he continued. “It happens every day. It’s just regular sh*t. This just happens to have an audience.”
Future Finally Addresses “Like That” & The Drake Vs. Kendrick Lamar Beef
Future also addressed the feud between Drake and Kendrick and initially joked that he wasn’t aware of any issue between the rappers. He went on to allege that “no one cared about him” or thought he was good enough for J. Cole’s “big three” (J. Cole, Drake, Kendrick Lamar)—so why should he care about them?
“There was a beef?” asked Future in GQ.“I didn’t even know there was a beef. I didn’t even know they had nothing going on. I ain’t never participated in rap battles, man.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Future dropped a bombshell alleging that Kendrick dissed him on his own song and essentially treated him like an afterthought.
“He said ‘Big Three’ on my song,” Future said recalling Kendrick’s “Like That” Verse. “Nobody cares about what I think,” said Future, breaking into a laugh. “That’s what was so f**ked up about the sh*t. To the point where I’m so player that I ain’t even said anything to the public about how I feel about it. Like, why is everybody mad when he was talking about me on my song? So y’all just forgot about me, I ain’t part of this Big Three, I’m nobody on my song, man,” he says with faux self-deprecation. “If I didn’t get mad, nobody should have gotten mad! If I would have been really mad about it and I made something out of it, then someone else could be like, Oh, I can make something else about it.”
When asked by GQ if he’s cool with all the parties involved, Future firmly stated that he has no reason to have any issues with his peers.
“Yeah. Who I’m not cool with? Because I ain’t got nothing to be mad about. Find something I should be mad at them about, then I guess I’ll get mad.” Future told GQ. “Got no reason to be mad at nobody,” Future says, shrugging again. “I just told you, I’m chilling. Do I sound like I’m mad at anybody?”
We hate to be the ones to disagree with Future, but it sounds like he’s seemingly mad at Kendrick Lamar. What seemed like a 20 vs. 1 against Drake is slowly morphing into something entirely different. Drake and Future kept the subliminal jabs light toward one another, and reconciliation seems to be imminent. Young Thug even previously called for everyone to make amends and repair their relationships.
You can read Future’s full interview from GQ courtesy of Elliott Wilson below.